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Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken 1630-1740 (SIGNED COPY)by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken 1630-1740 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Hardcover. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 451 pages, with Japanese text in back. Slight wear/rubbing to edges and spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf and handwritten note by author laid-in. Crisp, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852676

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Christ Alone Exalted: In the Perfection and Encouragements of the Saints, Notwithstanding Sins and Trials - Being the Complete Works of Tobias Crisp Containing Fifty-Two Sermons - Volume 1by:

Christ Alone Exalted: In the Perfection and Encouragements of the Saints, Notwithstanding Sins and Trials - Being the Complete Works of Tobias Crisp Containing Fifty-Two Sermons - Volume 1
by:

Hardcover. London, John Bennett, reprint, 1832, Book: Very Good, 366 pages photocopied from the 1832 Seventh Edition, xeroxed two leafs per page with the reverse side blank. Bound in oblong black cloth covers. Volume 1 only (of 2).

Record # 405541

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Accounts Rendered by Papal Collectors in England 1317-1378by: Lunt, William E.

Accounts Rendered by Papal Collectors in England 1317-1378
by: Lunt, William E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 579 pages. B&w photographs. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing to top edge. Wear, chipping to dust jacket. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851812

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Spirituality and Administration: The Role of the Bishop in Twelfth Century Auxerre: Volume 5 Speculum Anniversary Monographs by: Bouchard, Constance Brittain

Spirituality and Administration: The Role of the Bishop in Twelfth Century Auxerre: Volume 5 Speculum Anniversary Monographs
by: Bouchard, Constance Brittain

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Medieval Academy of America, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Bouchard's work is erudite and provides a picture of the development of the shifting relationship between the pastoral demands placed on the prelates and those of the secular administrative. Some coped with the phenomenal increase of secular administration over the century better than others. Some coped with the machinations of local counts and even kings who would seize property almost at a whim better than others. One even defied the Pope until threatened with excommunication if he did not accept his 'promotion'. Clean copy.

Record # 382050

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Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery by: Richard McKeon

Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery
by: Richard McKeon

Hardcover. Woodbridge CT, Ox Bow Press,, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 220 pages. Clean copy. The essays of Richard McKeon have long circulated piecemeal among scholars who see him as the leading twentieth-century philosopher and historian of rhetoric. This volume brings together McKeon's seminal works in rhetoric and philosophy, and vividly demonstrates the basis for this extraordinary reputation. | In his pursuit of rhetoric's fundamental qualities, McKeon ventures far beyond the traditional notion of rhetoric as simply a verbal art of persuasion. He details a history in which rhetoric functions as a tool for creating disciplines, arts, systems, and methods. Expression has always been an important element of rhetoric, but rhetoric also can serve as an organizational principle that provides the framework within which we can reveal and arrange the significant parts of any human understanding. | Given the prodigious range of McKeon's intellectual curiosity, his longtime and pervasive interest in rhetoric suggests the unique place he assigns it in the scheme of humanistic art

Record # 371374

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Magnalia Christi Americana: Books I and IIby: Mather, Cotton With Kenneth B. Murdock (Ed) With Elizabeth Miller

Magnalia Christi Americana: Books I and II
by: Mather, Cotton With Kenneth B. Murdock (Ed) With Elizabeth Miller

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 500 pages. "The Ecclesiastical History of New England from the First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698." With reproductions of the title-pages from the 1702 edition. Edited by Kenneth B. Murdock, with the assistance of Elizabeth W. Miller. Clean copy.

Record # 384257

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Institution de la religion Chrestienne: Livre troisiemeby: Jean Calvin

Institution de la religion Chrestienne: Livre troisieme
by: Jean Calvin

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 498 pages, FRENCH TEXT. Cover and spine tanning, tape enforced at spine top and bottom. small name on title page. Interior clean and bright.

Record # 383883

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Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyleby: Boyle, Robert, Editor: Stewart, M. A.

Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle
by: Boyle, Robert, Editor: Stewart, M. A.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. "The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte's Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars."

Record # 384005

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British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century by: Hutton, Sarah

British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
by: Hutton, Sarah

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his statusas father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the Aristotelian synthesis which had dominated intellectual life since the middle ages. In this period of transformational change, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke are acknowledged tohave contributed significantly to the shape of European philosophy from their own time to the present day. But these figures did not work in isolation. Sarah Hutton places them in their intellectual context, including the social, political and religious conditions in which philosophy was practised. She treats seventeenth-century philosophy as an ongoing like all conversations, some voices will dominate, some will be more persuasive than others and there will be enormous variationsin tone from the polite to polemical, matter-of-fact, intemperate. The conversation model allows voices to be heard which would otherwise be discounted. Hutton shows the importance of figures normally regarded as 'minor' players in philosophy (e.g. Herbert of Cherbury, Cudworth, More, Burthogge,Norris, Toland) as well as others who have been completely overlooked, notably female philosophers. Crucially, instead of emphasizing the break between seventeenth-century philosophy and its past, the conversation model makes it possible to trace continuities between the Renaissance and seventeenth century, across the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century, while at the same time acknowledging the major changes which occurred.

Record # 384042

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:The Phenomenology of Spirit by: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich / Terry Pinkard (Ed.)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:The Phenomenology of Spirit
by: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich / Terry Pinkard (Ed.)

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 492 pages. Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social character of human agency itself. A bold new understanding of what, after Hegel, came to be called 'subjectivity' arose from this work, and it was instrumental in the formation of later philosophies, such as existentialism, Marxism, and American pragmatism, each of which reacted to Hegel's radical claims in different ways. This edition offers a new translation, an introduction, and glossaries to assist readers' understanding of this central text, and will be essential for scholars and students of Hegel. Clean copy.

Record # 384152

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Christianity Not Mysterious: Bound with Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity Not Mysteriousby: Toland, John/Browne, Peter

Christianity Not Mysterious: Bound with Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity Not Mysterious
by: Toland, John/Browne, Peter

Hardcover. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1st thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Facsimile reprints of the two works (1696 and 1697). Introduction by John Valdimir Price. Approx, 430 pages, light pencil markings to about 20 pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 384111

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The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'by: Dunn, John/John Locke

The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'
by: Dunn, John/John Locke

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages. This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By adopting this approach, he reveals the predominantly theological character of all Locke's thinking about politics and provides a convincing analysis of the development of Locke's thought. In a polemical concluding section, John Dunn argues that liberal and Marxist interpretations of Locke's politics have failed to grasp his meaning. Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to the development of English constitutional thought, or as a reflector of socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as essentially a Calvinist natural theologian. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384278

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Six discours sur la distinction et l'union du corps et de l'ame. Discours physique de la parole (Textes Cartesiens En Langue Francaise) (French Edition)by: De Cordemo

Six discours sur la distinction et l'union du corps et de l'ame. Discours physique de la parole (Textes Cartesiens En Langue Francaise) (French Edition)
by: De Cordemo

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384426

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Proclus On Providenceby: Steel, Carlos (Translator)

Proclus On Providence
by: Steel, Carlos (Translator)

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, vibrant, and glossy. All in like-new condition, excellent. One of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. This first English translation will bring the arguments Proclus formulates again to the fore.

Record # 99055

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Collected Papersby: John Rawls

Collected Papers
by: John Rawls

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls's essays. Owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386136

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Panorthosia  or Universal Reform by Comenius 19-26by: John Amos Comenius / A.M.O. Dobbie (transl.)

Panorthosia or Universal Reform by Comenius 19-26
by: John Amos Comenius / A.M.O. Dobbie (transl.)

Hardcover. UK, Sheffield Academic Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 167 pages. Panorthosia (Universal Reform) is the essential theme of John Amos Comenius's famous Consultation on the Reform of Human Affairs, and chapters 19-26 represent its climax. In this volume is presented the first English translation of this major work of Comenius, which was lost from about 1672 until 1934 when the Latin scholars of Czechoslovakia had it edited for publication in Prague in 1960. Clean copy.

Record # 386165

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Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers by: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Richard Crouter

Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers
by: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Richard Crouter

Softcover. UK , Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This edition presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time. Richard Crouter's introduction places the work in the milieu of early German Romanticism, Kant criticism, the revival of Spinoza and Plato studies, and theories of literary criticism and of the physical sciences. This fully annotated edition also contains a chronology and notes on further reading. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386182

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Reduction, Explanation, and Realismby: David Charles (Editor), Kathleen Lennon (Editor)

Reduction, Explanation, and Realism
by: David Charles (Editor), Kathleen Lennon (Editor)

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 475 pages, What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color, biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science? Conversely, does failure to achieve a reduction undermine the legitimacy of higher levels of description or explanation? Though reduction has long been a favorite method of analysis in all areas of philosophy, in recent years philosophers have attempted to avoid these traditional alternatives by developing an account of higher-level phenomena which shows them to be grounded in, but not reducible to, basic physical objects and properties. The contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such anti-reductionist views, and assess their coherence and success, in a number of different fields, including moral and mental philosophy, psychology, organic biology, and the social sciences. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 386314

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Malebranche's First and Last Critics: Simon Foucher and Dortius De Mairan (Journal on the History of Philosophy) by: Watson, Richard A, Professor (Translated by), and

Malebranche's First and Last Critics: Simon Foucher and Dortius De Mairan (Journal on the History of Philosophy)
by: Watson, Richard A, Professor (Translated by), and

Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 114 pages. In this engrossing double volume, the work and thought of Nicolas Malebranche is examined through the eyes of Simon Foucher and Dortous de Mairan. Part 1 consists of Richard A. Watson's translation of the first published critique, by Simon Foucher, of Malebranche's main philosophical work, Of the Search for the Truth. In the second part, Marjorie Grene presents a meticulous translation of the long correspondence between Malebranche and Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan that ended shortly before Malebranche's death. Both Watson and Grene provide insightful introductions to their translations. Clean copy.

Record # 386375

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An Essay on the Foundations of Our Knowledge by: Cournot, Antoine Augustin, 1801-1877

An Essay on the Foundations of Our Knowledge
by: Cournot, Antoine Augustin, 1801-1877

Softcover. NY, Liberal Arts Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 615 pages. Translated with an introduction by Merritt H. Moore. Some light fading to edges of yellow wrappers, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Out of print and uncommon.

Record # 386342

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Hegel's Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art - Volume IIby: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author), T. M. Knox (Translator)

Hegel's Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art - Volume II
by: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author), T. M. Knox (Translator)

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Pages 613-1289. Volume 2 ONLY. The only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III (in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386452

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Typological Writings (The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series, Volume 11) by: Edwards, Jonathan

Typological Writings (The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series, Volume 11)
by: Edwards, Jonathan

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light sunning to spine, 349 pages. This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive, readable, and annotated text of the key typological notebooks of Jonathan Edwards: "Images of Divine Things," "Types Notebook," and Miscellany 1069, "Types of the Messiah." These three works illustrate the way the eminent eighteenth-century theologian developed his theory of typological exegesis, a theory that helped him to understand the relationship between the Old and New Testaments and to comprehend the correspondence between the natural and the spiritual worlds. Edwards' theories of typology have long fascinated scholars from a variety of fields and have dominated literary studies of his work. These documents illuminate Edwards' epistemology and show clearly his involvement in contemporary philosophical and exegetical trends. Introductions to the documents place Edwards' typology within the context of his period, describe his typological practices, clarify some of the complex problems posed by his ambiguous use of the types throughout his career, and discuss his philosophical defenses of typologizing against the claims of materialists, deists, and rationalists. Clean copy.

Record # 386528

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Discourse on Universal Historyby: Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, trans. Elborg Forster

Discourse on Universal History
by: Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, trans. Elborg Forster

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 376 pages. Translated from the French by Elborg Forster, edited and Introduction by Orest Ranum. A new translation of the 1681 work of theology and philosophy by Roman Catholic bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386597

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Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciencesby: Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences
by: Wilhelm Dilthey

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 399 pages. Volume 3 ONLY in the set of his Selected Works. Provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three 'Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences,' in which Dilthey refashions Husserlian concepts to describe the basic structures of consciousness relevant to historical understanding.The volume next presents the major 1910 work The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Here Dilthey considers the degree to which carriers of history--individuals, cultures, institutions, and communities--can be articulated as productive systems capable of generating value and meaning and of realizing purposes. Hegel's idea of objective spirit is reconceived in a more empirical form to designate the medium of commonality in which historical beings are immersed. Any universal claims about history need to be framed within the specific productive systems analyzed by the various human sciences. Dilthey's drafts for the Continuation of the Formation contain extensive discussions of the categories most important for our knowledge of historical life: meaning, value, purpose, time, and development. He also examines the contributions of autobiography to historical understanding and of biography to scientific history. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386625

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The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory (2 Volumes)by: Brian O'Shaughnessy

The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory (2 Volumes)
by: Brian O'Shaughnessy

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, Parts 1 and 2, 259 and 368 pages. A philosophical study of the nature of bodily action and the will - and the responsibility we have for our own active bodily movements, which is distinct from though closely related to both causal and moral responsibility. Name on front fly leaf and light pencil notations to 20 pages in volume 1, light stain in volume 2 on copy block, not affecting text.

Record # 386652

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Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity by: Martin Heidegger

Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity
by: Martin Heidegger

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine and spine edge, 138 pages. "With thematic trajectories pointing both toward and beyond Being and Time, this translation ...is of enormous significance for students of the development of Heidegger's early thought." - Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University. First published in 1988 as volume 63 of Heidegger's Collected Works, "Ontology" follows Heidegger's lectures at the University of Freiburg during the summer semester of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriation of the hermeneutical tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Other important themes that are taken up are his turn to the facticity and everyday world of Dasein, his interpretation of human existence in the present historically and philosophically, his understanding of phenomenology, and his repeated insistence on the temporal dimension of interpretation and significance. Students of Heidegger's thought will find initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of human existence and "question of Being," which received mature expression in Being and Time. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to rear endpapers, 3 pages.

Record # 386706

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Hume's Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Contextby: Jones, Peter

Hume's Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Context
by: Jones, Peter

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 230 pages. The author substantially revises the view that Hume's main intellectual debts are to Newton and Hutcheson. The book traces the deep and pervasive influence of Cicero on Hume's thought and the impact of French philosophers such as Malebranche. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386731

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 2: Patriarchalism, the Social Contract and Civic Virture 1705- 1760by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 2: Patriarchalism, the Social Contract and Civic Virture 1705- 1760
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 377 pages. Vol. 2 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Record # 386755

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Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer: Introduction, Texts, Translations. by: Michael J.B. Allen

Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer: Introduction, Texts, Translations.
by: Michael J.B. Allen

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. The great Florentine Neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), published his commentary on Plato s Phaedrus in 1496. Though incomplete, it was the culminating attempt in a series ot analyses of one of the most memorable episodes in all Greek literature, Plato s myth of the souls as charioteers ascending through heaven to gaze upwards at the Ideas in the "superheavenly" place. The commentary contains some of Ficino's latest and most speculative thought on Platonic theogony and mythology; on the metaphysics and the epistemology of beauty; on the soul s ethereal vehicles; on its flight tall, and immortality; and on the origins and natures of the four divine madnesses, preeminently the poetic and the amatory. It also betrays some fascinating misconceptions of the Phaedrus, since Ficino, assuming it was the first of Plato s dialogues, thought it especially indebted to Pythagorean ideas and motifs, on the one hand, and to the poetic madness on the other. Along with a comprehensive historical introduction and notes, Mr. Allen has given us critically edited texts and translations of the commentary and its accompanying summae, and of Phaedran passages embedded in earlier works. Also included is the text of Ficino s Latin translation of the dialogue s "mythical hymn," on which the bulk of the commentary and summae was based. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386909

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The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume III.1by: Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume III.1
by: Emil Schurer

Hardcover. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 704 pages. Volume 3/Part 1 ONLY. A New English Edition revised and edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar and Matthew Black. Critical presentation of the whole evidence concerning Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 BC to AD 135; with updated bibliographies. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386815

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The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soulby: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour

The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soul
by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, lacks dust jacket, 256 pages. A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Volume 1 ONLY. Clean copy.

Record # 386950

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Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics by: Bobonich, Christopher

Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics
by: Bobonich, Christopher

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 643 pages. An illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens toachieve a truly good life. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387953

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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmologyby: Whitehead, Alfred North

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
by: Whitehead, Alfred North

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University, 1st Edition, 1929, 509 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's book plate on front flyleaf. Brown cover boards, crease through center of top cover board, but board is straight and unbent. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding good. The lectures are based upon a recurrence to that phase of philosophic thought which began with Descartes and ended with Hume. The philosophic scheme which they endeavour to explain is termed the "Philosophy of Organism".

Record # 99233

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The Nature of Truth: An Essayby: Harold H. Joachim

The Nature of Truth: An Essay
by: Harold H. Joachim

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd Ed., 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library copy with light stamping, label on spine. 182 pages. Except for library stamping text pages are clean, firm binding. Originally published in 1906, this with a new preface by author.

Record # 384258

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Women, Branch Stories, Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Textby: Paula Richman

Women, Branch Stories, Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text
by: Paula Richman

Hardcover. Syracuse University, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 383843

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Plotinus: The Enneads by: Plotinus; Gerson, Lloyd P. (editor;)

Plotinus: The Enneads
by: Plotinus; Gerson, Lloyd P. (editor;)

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 931 pages. Greek glossary, English glossary, bibliography of Principal editions of secondary sources. Octavo. Glossy burgunday soft covers with gold and white titles. Covers have minimal shelf wear, a small bump at top left front, interior clean and fresh, a few pages have very slight sign of storage bend at the top corner, otherwise very good. Heavy for international shipping. The Enneads is a work central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This volume is the first complete edition in English for 75 years and also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Gerson, a team of experts present up to date translations which are based on the best available text, the editio minor of Henry and Schwyzer and its corrections.... They also offer extensive annotation to assist the reader, together with cross-references and citations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386542

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The YOUNG MAN: or Lectures for the Times, Delivered in the Fourth Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct.by: Patton, William W.

The YOUNG MAN: or Lectures for the Times, Delivered in the Fourth Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct.
by: Patton, William W.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Edwin Hunt, 1st, 1847, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. 7.75 x 4.75", blind & gold stamped brown cloth. A collection of sermons: Elements of Power: spirit of enterprise, enthusiasm, courage, readiness to receive & propagate new truths; Sources of Danger: trifling pursuits, unworthy associates, improper pleasures & amusements, ball-room, intemperance, theatre, improper reading; Pleasure & the Judgment; Demands of Age: reforms, slavery, war, temperance; spurious reforms, capital punishment. Some light foxing, minor wear to covers, clean.

Record # 372836

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Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces: Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)by: Jo

Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces: Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
by: Jo

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 564 pages. This volume offers an outline of developments in the intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. Emphasizing changes in the relations between religious belief and the public sphere, it seeks to add new perspectives to recent analyses of toleration. Each chapter of this book discusses a different aspect of the eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debate. On the basis of a large number of sources, and paying particular attention to minor writers, a broad variety of topics is treated, ranging from the official Reformed confessions and legal scholarship to unionism, apologetics, sociability, and the press. This study extends contemporary analyses of early modern thought on toleration to the end of the eighteenth century. Name on front fly leaf, pencil notations to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

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The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopiaby: Malcolm Bull

The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopia
by: Malcolm Bull

Hardcover. NY, Verso, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. In essays that range from ancient Greece to the end of the Anthropocene, Bull addresses questions central to contemporary political theory in novel readings of texts by Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, and Arendt, and shows how classic philosophical problems have a bearing on issues like political protest and climate change. The result is an entirely original account of political agency for the twenty-first century in which uncertainty and idleness are limned with utopian promise. Clean, bright copy.

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Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece with a new translation of the Seventh Letter by Jonah Raddingby: Reid, Heather L./Ralkowski, Mark (Editors)

Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece with a new translation of the Seventh Letter by Jonah Radding
by: Reid, Heather L./Ralkowski, Mark (Editors)

Softcover. Souix City IA, Parnassos Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages. This book is born from a desire to understand how Plato influenced and was influenced by the intellectual culture of Western Greece, the ancient Hellenic cities of Sicily and Southern Italy. In 2018, a seminar on Plato at Syracuse was organized, in which a small group of scholars discussed a new translation of the Seventh Letter and several essays on the topic. The essays consider the historical, political, and philosophical implications of Plato's involvement in Syracuse. They also look at the reception of his voyage among fellow philosophers, ancient and modern. Clean copy.

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Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism by: Benedict, Philip

Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism
by: Benedict, Philip

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 670 pages. This sweeping and eminently readable book is the first synthetic history of Calvinism in almost fifty years. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from its birth in the cities of Switzerland to the unraveling of orthodoxy amid the new intellectual currents of the seventeenth century. As befits a pan-European movement, Benedict's canvas stretches from the British Isles to eastern Europe. The course and causes of Calvinism's remarkable expansion, the inner workings of the diverse national churches, and the theological debates that shaped Reformed doctrine all receive ample attention. The English Reformation is situated within the history of continental Protestantism in a way that reveals the international significance of English developments. A fresh examination of Calvinist worship, piety, and discipline permits an up-to-date assessment of the classic theories linking Calvinism to capitalism and democracy. Benedict not only paints a vivid picture of the greatest early spokesmen of the cause, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, but also restores many lesser-known figures to their rightful place. Ambitious in conception, attentive to detail, this book offers a model of how to think about the history and significance of religious change across the long Reformation era. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386240

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Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, Anby: Kinloch, T.F.

Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, An
by: Kinloch, T.F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, Revised, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A few minor margin marks in pencil. Dark blue cover boards.

Record # 354128

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The Oxford Francis Bacon XIII: The Instauratio Magna: Last Writingsby: Bacon, Francis, and Rees, Graham (Edited and translated by)

The Oxford Francis Bacon XIII: The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings
by: Bacon, Francis, and Rees, Graham (Edited and translated by)

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black glossy boards, 363 pages. This volume belongs to the first new critical edition of the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to have been produced since the nineteenth century. The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and according to the best principles of modern textual scholarship. The seven works in the present volume belong to the final completed stages (Parts III-V) of Bacon's hugely ambitious six-part sequence of philosophical works, collectively entitled Instauratio magna (1620-6). All are presented in the original Latin with new facing-page translations. Three of the seven texts (substantial works in two cases, and all sharing a startlingly improbable textual history) are published and translated here for the first time: these are an early version of the Historia densi, the 'lost' Abecedarium, and the Historia de animato & inanimato. Another--the Prodromi sive anticipationes philosphiae secundae--has likewise never been translated before. Together with their commentaries and the introduction they open the way to important new understandings of Bacon's mature philosophical thought. Clean copy.

Record # 384215

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The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast by: Giordano Bruno/ Arthur D. Imerti [Translator]

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
by: Giordano Bruno/ Arthur D. Imerti [Translator]

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 324 pages. "Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600. Bruno's most representative work, Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast), published in an atmosphere of secrecy in 1584 and never referred to as anything but blasphemous for more than a century, was singled out by the church tribunal at the summation of his final trial. That is hardly surprising because the book is a daring indictment of the corruption of the social and religious institutions of his day. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386668

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The Ethics of Rhetoricby: Weaver, Richard M.

The Ethics of Rhetoric
by: Weaver, Richard M.

Softcover. Davis CA, Hermagoras Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages. clean, like new. The Ethics of Rhetoric argues for the essential moral nature of language, the reciprocal damage done to each when morality and language are separated, a damage which extends to our ability to think and pursue truth. Weaver examines Plato's Phaedrus, the Scopes Trial, and the rhetorical methods of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln to flesh out this position.

Record # 371951

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Book of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be su

Book of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be su

Hardcover. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University, 1st Edition, 1777, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in polished calf (agewear--see image), gilt bands on spine. Front cover boards and front flyleaf still attached but coming loose from binding,Binding tight otherwise. Spine straight. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and dated signatures (178? and 1792) on title page (see image). Some light pencil on top of title page (see image). Tanning throughout from age. Beautiful old volume, a collector's dream.

Record # 367817

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The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Centuryby: Herausgeber: Leijenhorst, C., Herausgeber: L]thy, C., Herausgeber: Thijss

The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
by: Herausgeber: Leijenhorst, C., Herausgeber: L]thy, C., Herausgeber: Thijss

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 482 pages. This book explores the dynamics of the commentary and textbook traditions in Aristotelian natural philosophy under the headings of doctrine, method, and scientific and social status. It inquires what the evolution of the Aristotelian commentary tradition can tell us about the character of natural philosophy as a pedagogical tool, as a scientific enterprise, and as a background to modern scientific thought. In a unique attempt to cut old-fashioned historiographic divisions, it brings together scholars of ancient, medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century philosophy. The book covers a remarkably broad range of topics: it starts with the first Greek commentators and ends with Leibniz. Small ink stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383974

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Malebranche: The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truthby: Malebranche, Nicolas/ Lennon, Thomas M./ Olscamp, Paul J.

Malebranche: The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truth
by: Malebranche, Nicolas/ Lennon, Thomas M./ Olscamp, Paul J.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 775 pages. Malebranche is now recognized as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations that accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche solicited on the original work and an important repository of his theories of ideas and causation. Together, the two texts constitute the complete expression of his mature thought, and are written in his subtle, argumentative and thoroughly readable style. Bright, clean copy.

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The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophyby: Cees Leijenhorst

The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy
by: Cees Leijenhorst

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2002, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 242 pages. An acclaimed study - now available for the first time in English - investigates the relation between Thomas Hobbes? natural philosophy as represented in his Prima Philosophia (the second part of De Corpore (1655)) and the various currents of Renaissance and early modern Aristotelianism. Although Hobbes presents his mechanistic philosophy of nature as an outright replacement of Aristotelian physics, he continued to use the vocabulary and arguments of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. Leijenhorst shows that while in some cases this common vocabulary hides profound conceptual innovations, in other cases Hobbes' self-proclaimed "new" philosophy is simply old wine in new sacks. Leijenhorst's book substantially enriches our insight in the complexity of the rise of modern philosophy and the way it struggled with the Aristotelian heritage. Clean copy.

Record # 384109

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Locke and French Materialism by: Yolton, John W.

Locke and French Materialism
by: Yolton, John W.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages. This book tells for the first time the long and complex story of the involvement of Locke's suggestion that God could add to matter the power of thought in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the growth of French materialism. There is a discussion of the 'affaire de Prades', in which Locke's name was linked with a censored thesis at the Faculty of Theology in Paris. The similarities and differences between English "thinking matter" and the French "mati`ere pensante" of the philosophes are also discussed. Name o front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384169

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